Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives

by Marilyn B. Young and Mark Philip Bradley

Book Overview

Making sense of the wars for Vietnam has had a long history. The question "why Vietnam?" dominated American and Vietnamese political life for much of the length of the wars and has continued to be asked in the decades since they ended. This volume brings together the work of eleven scholars to examine the conceptual and methodological shifts that have marked the contested terrain of Vietnam War scholarship. Editors Marilyn Young and Mark Bradley's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195315146
• ISBN13: 9780195315141
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"